This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kdberr1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1478.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm researching the lynching of my great-great grandfather, CHARLES BROWN, in Wilkinson Co. in Sept. 1879. He had a confrontation with WILBERT and MARY PHARES of Mount Pleasant over non-payment for carpentry work he'd done for the family. During the confrontation, a "nameless outrage" supposedly "almost" occurred (I believe this is a euphemism for rape) and Charles Brown allegedly threatened Mary Phares with a hatchet. LOUIS SWIFT, a black employee of the Phares, helped Wilbert Phares to subdue Brown and put him in the basement of the house. Neighbors heard about the confrontation, came to the house and took him away. He was found hanged 3 days later. I don't know if Charles Brown was actually from Wilkinson Co. -- he lived in East Feliciana Parish, LA. The U.S. Mortality Census for 1880 in East Felciana says he was from Mississippi and had lived in LA for 14 years. I have a newspaper article and have researched Phares, Swift and of course my ancestor in the U.S. Census. I'm hoping this isn't the limit of the information about what happened. The newspaper article was originally published in the Woodville Republican of Wilkinson Co. It was reprinted in East Feliciana Parish and a paper in Cincinnati. If you have info about this lynching, please contact me. Thanks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.